Original Narrative for Hurston Performance Assessment
Standards Addressed: 4, 5, 7
Focus
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3
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· All the information is necessary to maintain a thread of central meaning · Demonstrates a consistent awareness of task and audience · Does not include non-essential information
Content (Context, Control, Implications, Believability, and Impact)
4
3
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· Context – embodies the relationship between place, tradition, history, and story · Control – story allows for a figurative reading that is suggested by identifiable literary devices/techniques such as:
-allegorical details, archetypes and archetypal patterns, allusion, imagery, imagery patterns, metaphor,
personification, simile, symbolism, point of view (unreliable narrator), resolution (realization, incipient
realization), characterization details, foil characters, narrative structure (frame) · Implication – the figurative level of the story develops a clear thematic issue, the “So What?” implication. · Believability – the story is believable—sufficient details, development · Impact – The story intrigues the reader with its originality or ability to compel attention and/or provoke thoughtful response.
Organization
4
3
2
1
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· Clear order established and sustained within and across paragraphs using implicit and explicit transitional devices · Effective framing of narrative – clear beginning, middle, and end · Logical and coherent development of plot
Style
4
3
2
1
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· Dialogue and Dialect – appropriate and consistent tone, rhythm, and word choice.
– colorful figurative language, in particular metaphors and imagery, weaved throughout · Authentic — uses precise diction and phrasing to resonate sounds, songs, and/or stories of Southern Black folk tradition · Folkloric techniques – features of orality or performance, moral features or social commentary
-- fuses folk reality with animated characterization and setting
Conventions
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3
2
1
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· Paper reflects careful proof reading · Adheres to Focal Correction Areas discussed in Nine Ways To Improve Your Writing (when appropriate to narrative structure)
-active rather than passive voice
-consistent and appropriate point of view
- commas used judiciously
- pronoun agreement and clarity
- verb tense consistency
Original Narrative for Hurston Performance Assessment
Standards Addressed: 4, 5, 7
· Demonstrates a consistent awareness of task and audience
· Does not include non-essential information
(Context, Control, Implications, Believability, and Impact)
· Control – story allows for a figurative reading that is suggested by identifiable literary devices/techniques such as:
-allegorical details, archetypes and archetypal patterns, allusion, imagery, imagery patterns, metaphor,
personification, simile, symbolism, point of view (unreliable narrator), resolution (realization, incipient
realization), characterization details, foil characters, narrative structure (frame)
· Implication – the figurative level of the story develops a clear thematic issue, the “So What?” implication.
· Believability – the story is believable—sufficient details, development
· Impact – The story intrigues the reader with its originality or ability to compel attention and/or provoke thoughtful response.
· Effective framing of narrative – clear beginning, middle, and end
· Logical and coherent development of plot
– colorful figurative language, in particular metaphors and imagery, weaved throughout
· Authentic — uses precise diction and phrasing to resonate sounds, songs, and/or stories of Southern Black folk tradition
· Folkloric techniques – features of orality or performance, moral features or social commentary
-- fuses folk reality with animated characterization and setting
· Adheres to Focal Correction Areas discussed in Nine Ways To Improve Your Writing (when appropriate to narrative structure)
-active rather than passive voice
-consistent and appropriate point of view
- commas used judiciously
- pronoun agreement and clarity
- verb tense consistency
Weights Scores Total/Grade
Focus (2) _
Content (4) _
Organization (2) _
Style (4) _
Conventions (2) _
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